In 2012 it was included in the Cardinal Newman Society's Top 50 Catholic High Schools list.

[4] In October 2007, the diocese announced that the school would be named after Pope John Paul II.

The girls Track & Field team won the Virginia Catholic State Championship in 2015.

The boys Cross Country team won the Virginia Catholic Schools State Championship in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, and had individual champions in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2023, and 2024.

In 2015, The Varsity boys football team produced a good record at 7-3 and once more clinched the State Playoffs.

They lost in the first round to Bishop Ireton, who went on to lose to the State Champions, the Benedictine School.